Digital Knowledge for Justice in the Anthropocene

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: FSE036 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG10 Digital Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

The very notion of digitally extended cognition deeply troubles and unsettles traditional epistemology. Similarly, contestations of digital epistemology abound. Modes of knowing and knowledge generated from digitally stored and produced information deeply trouble the stable research program. What genuine and pertinent knowledge "gadget minds" can enable for human emancipatory purposes is on our watershed era's central axis of inquiry. How do we know without knowing how artificially intelligent actants in cognition ‘cogitate’ humans’ predicament in the Anthropocene? Can their ‘knowledge’ be trusted to solve justly and responsibly the problems of humanity’s own making in becoming the ‘geological force’ while lacking the knowledge to cope with the consequences of the enormity of such power?

This session calls on researchers to critically examine the structural affordances of digital knowledge generation. Papers should focus on the power dynamics of digital knowledge and how it impacts whom, when, and how it can become significant in our understanding of the Anthropocene’s injustices and their transcending. Insights into the reliability and effectiveness of digitally generated knowledge for navigating the ‘triple planetary crises’, ensuring justice for the most vulnerable and least responsible people for their outbreak, could be a productive path in gauging digital knowledge's validity and advancing the digital epistemology research program.

Session Organizers:
Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK, University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences, Serbia and Ana VUKOVIC, Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia
Chair:
Ana VUKOVIC, Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia
Oral Presentations
Is Human Knowledge Coming to Its End with the Development of Artificial Intelligence?
Prof. Uros SUVAKOVIC, PhD, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Education, Serbia
Navigating Environmental Justice in Nepal: Power Dynamics and Digital Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Rajitha VENUGOPAL VENUGOPAL, FLAME UNIVERSITY, India; Rasik KOAYIL, Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan
“(Not) Gonna Dig”: Mapping Controversies in the Anthropocene Era of Lithium Extraction in Serbia
Stefan JANKOVIĆ, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia; David ADAM, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia
Discourse of Clickable News – Style of Hybrid Genres in Contemporary Journalism
Lidija MIRKOV, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Political Science, Serbia
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